Over the line - ruby

How to install Diaspora on CentOS 7

axil — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0200

The tutorial isn't really hosted on my blog but on DigitalOcean's community page, but I thought I could give some background regarding this decision.

Introduction

Last November, Nikos, Pierros and me, decided to run a Diaspora pod to accomodate the needs of the Greek community and also increase the number …

IsItFedoraRuby new design

axil — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

The past week I tried to do something about the looks of isitfedoraruby. It was fun using bootstrap (my first time) and I think the outcome is cool. I tried to use Fedora like colors and the font is Liberation Sans, same as Fedora pkgdb.

You can check the overall …

Custom GitLab login page

axil — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

With the release of GitLab 7.1, the login page now looks like the default Enterprise Edition. Although in EE customizing the page should be easier to configure, we can do the same with Community Edition following some simple steps. If you are familiar with haml and bootstrap this should …

isitfedoraruby gsoc midterm sum up

axil — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

This sums up my past month involvement with the project. A lot of reading in between...

Changelog
Rails/Ruby style guide
Tests
Bugs fixed
Enhancements
- Show more info in fedorarpm show page
- Rake tasks

Changelog

I added a changelog so …

Rails development tools

axil — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

During the past two months I have been reading constantly about Rails and how I could get more productive when writing code and testing my apps. There is a ton of information about those matters on the web and I'll try to include as many articles as I could find …

Rubocop to the rescue!

axil — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

I decided to drop the GSoC related titles and focus on the things that I work during the week. That means I'll probably blog more often :p

This week I mostly focused on cleaning the code of fedoraruby and conforming to the ruby/rails community guidelines.

The gem that helps …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 3

axil — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Testing, testing, testing. Diving into BDD for the first time can be a little tedious but you sure learn a lot. In the ruby/rails world there is a ton of excellent tools to help you test your app. Some more popular than the others. I'm no exception so I …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 2

axil — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Here's what I've been doing last week.

Previous week

Architecture analysis

Getting to know an app from the ground up takes some time, especially if that's a framework you are not too familiar with. Luckilly, I found the railroady gem that helped me visualize how the app is structured, you …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 1

axil — Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 +0300

In case you haven't heard, I have been accepted again this year for Google Summer of Code :) This time I will be working on enhancing a Rails app that provides information about the state of rubygem packaging in Fedora.

isitfedoraruby is a project that was crafted in GSoC 2012 by …

Codeschool offers 2-day hall pass to all courses

axil — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Code School is an online learning platform that teaches a variety of programming and web design skills. Courses range from beginner to advanced levels and you get to earn rewards and badges as you learn.

Courses cover a variety of technologies including among others Git, Ruby, Backbone.js, Sass, Rails …

Bringing GitLab to Fedora

axil — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Update: I just got a confirmation mail that my proposal got accepted! Read here.

So, I decided to write some info regarding my involvement for this year's Google Summer of Code. I have been using/testing GitLab since version 2.0 (almost a year now) and I am thrilled to …